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The book is intended for both graduate students and professionals and assumes no previous knowledge of cave biology. Ebook Central Available to Stanford-affiliated users. Please choose whether or not you want other users to be able to see on your profile that this library is a favorite of yours. Finding libraries that hold this item The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats is a scientific book that will be of considerable value to speleobiologists interested in cave biology.

If you are only going to have one book on cave biology, this is the one to have. This is probably the best introduction yet written and is an essential source for all interested in subterranean emphatically not just cave biology. You may have already requested this item. Please select Ok if you would like to proceed with this request anyway.

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Tanja Pipan received her Ph.

The Biology of Caves and Other Subterranean Habitats

She received the award from the International Society for Subterranean Biology for best presentation at the meeting in Raipur, India and an award in for best paper at the International Association of Hydrogeology meeting in Kotar, Montenegro. Books by the same authors: Encyclopedia of Caves a D. White Subterranean Ecosystems a H. Fong Cave Life a D. Culver Epikarst - Promising Habitat a T.

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There has never been anything like it in the years of history of the discipline. It is clear that the authors know their way around the literature and are very familiar with all of the main aspects of subterranean biology. This is probably the best introduction yet written and is an essential source. The text is a broad synthesis of subterranean biology that should be easy to follow for readers of varied scientific backgrounds It will certainly provide cavers with a better appreciation for the interaction of geology and biology in the establishment and long-term maintenance of subterranean communities.

I highly recommend The Biology of Cave. Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Academic Skip to main content. Choose your country or region Close. Ebook This title is available as an ebook.

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